ABSTRACT
W. R. Bion was trying to explain how he visualised the organisation of the training wing of Northfield, a military hospital where Bion and Rickman had the task of managing patients “with nervous illnesses”. In 1937 it appears that Bion had exhausted the possibilities of psychotherapy and began a course of analysis with Rickman. His first impact on the training committee of the British Society seems both like a good illustration of his own need to make things clear and the capacity of the British Society to “make room” for a personality who was perhaps, even then, a little awkward. On 25 October Rickman informed the Training Committee that Bion had begun analysis with him, and the decision was made to treat Bion as if had been accepted as a candidate. In spite of the advice of the teaching committee to begin an analysis with D. Winnicott, Bion preferred to start with M. Klein in 1945.
